[ITA] Pubblicato su Noema una riflessione di Giorgio Cipolletta su Ars Electronica 2016. La rivoluzione digitale ha riconfigurato e decodificato il nostro mondo immerso tra il bagnato del biologico e il materico dei bit, modificando in maniera radicale la nostra percezione. Chi sono gli alchimisti del nostro tempo? Con Radical Atoms and the alchemist […]
In his performance Fields, Martin Messier asserts to play with magnetic fields. What he did, in reality, was much more complex. Using a –probably pre-programmed sound base– he coordinated his performance by manipulating two “connections patches that offer many possibilities to connect many outputs to many inputs”. The two artifacts you […]
In the past few years, art inspired by and producing Afrofuturism has been growing in Toronto and surroundings, thanks to a number of artists with strong agendas: I spoke before about Camille Turner, whose space adventures reveal the real stories and histories of migration, refuge and slavery of Afro- Caribbean and […]
I was looking forward to listening to Kara Stone’s presentation. While she locates her work in the realm of gaming, she refuses to follow the usual and trite narratives imposed by the gaming industry. Her goal is to inject games with affect, a term that she uses loosely to identify […]
This was by far the most Canadian performance I have ever seen in my life. Dressed as a ranger at times sitting on (and playing) a toilet and playing a Caribou antler, Dave Gould did a mesmerizing performance that incorporated electronic music and other hybrid/unusual sounds that could be synthetic but they […]
I am sure many of you have heard of Hitchbot, the funny looking and a bit rudimentary robot that successfully crossed Canada from Halifax to Victoria, went to Germany, The Netherlands, only to find its demise in the US a few days after it had started a tour of America. By then, […]
It would be unfair not to mention the Madscience exhibition that took place on the main floor on the first evening of FunctionKeys . In fact, this was a bit different from the science fairs I had seen in the past. A truly local event, it featured instruments and synthesizers by […]
Function Keys took place in a historic building downtown Hamilton called “the Spice Factory”. it is worth spending a few words about it, since its story, as I heard it from its new owners and attendees, is quite interesting. At more than a century old, the building hosted quite a diverse […]
Among the growing series of festivals, events, conferences dedicated to (and often over-celebrating) new and not-so-new technologies, I thought I would introduce you to this new-ish (in its third year) conference with the great title of “Function Keys“. There are several reasons why I decided to attend the conference and to write […]
italiano [English below] Dopo avere fatto passare un po’ di tempo, anche per rifletterci sopra, ritorno ad Ars Electronica lasciando alla fine quello che mi ha emozionato di più, con un valore diverso. Non tutti i lavori di cui dirò erano esposti nella stessa sede e nella stessa mostra, […]
One more interview we made at Ars Electronica, published in fivewordsforthefuture website. fivewordsforthefuture is a Noema project as well which aims at helping people to understand innovation, to imagine the future and have visions. This interview is to Christa Sommerer. Christa Sommerer studied Biology and Botany (1982-85), followed by Art Education and Art Study in Modern Sculpture (1985-90) in Vienna, Austria. […]
A short video on Ars Electronica 2016 made by Stefano Baldin. From the press release: «About 85,000 visits were tallied at the Ars Electronica Festival. “The public response has been overwhelming,” said a delighted Gerfried Stocker. “We knew that we really had to outdo ourselves at this second appearance in […]
At Ars Electronica we have made some interviews, that are published in fivewordsforthefuture website. fivewordsforthefuture is a Noema project as well which aims at helping people to understand innovation, to imagine the future and have visions. The first interview is to Annick Bureaud, an independent art critic, curator and event organiser, researcher and teacher in art and technosciences. She […]
Willing to be sympathetic, we need to grant complete trust to those artists who are working with that new peculiar art-material that – once – we used to call life, presuming they want to generate a debate around ethical sensitive topics in today science practice and/or opening new fronts in […]
ENG: Developed by “WATERisLIFE” and “pAge Drinking Paper”, The Drinkable Book let people to create safe and clean water from its pages. Every page contains advices to educate about hygene, and also is a silver nanoparticle paper filter that provides drinkable water. The project is still under development, the company […]
Linz, Thursday, September 8. As alchemists looking for the “lapis philosophorum”, in the early morning we arrived at the festival main hub gate with an enormous need of information gathering. “Situated amidst the main train station’s yard, the PostCity is a 80,000-m2 facility that used to be the postal service’s […]
Italiano [English below] Ars Electronica ha sempre presentato un tema intorno al quale far ruotare le mostre e gli eventi, gettando uno sguardo al futuro. Quest’anno il tema è stato “Radical Atoms, and the alchemists of our time”, e insisteva sul fatto che, al di là della dimensione del […]
ENGLISH: Thursday 8.9. , the Ground Floor of Ars Electronica 2016 hosted the exhibition of Navid Navab, Jerome Delapierre, Michael Montanaro and Tony Chong with their “Practices Of Everyday Life”. The show was portrayed in his version “Cooking”, the first part of a series that explore the enchanted and harmonious […]
Italiano [English below] Quest’anno ad Ars Electronica i droni sono stati tra gli attori principali: a PostCity c’era un circuito per la corsa dei droni, uno spazio per le prove dei i droni, dei workshop dedicati e il Drone Lab. Poi c’è stata la grande performance “Drones 100 – Spaxels over […]
Ars Electronica ha numerose installazioni che si basano sull’interazione con il pubblico. Spesso l’interazione diventa un gioco, qualcosa di divertente e immediato che cattura l’attenzione dello spettatore. Ecco alcune delle strutture con queste qualità di immediatezza nel catturare l’attenzione e divertire il pubblico. Haptoclone è un’installazione ideata da Shinoda e […]
Italiano [English below] Anche quest’anno ho preso confidenza con Ars Electronica. Come sempre all’inizio tutto è un po’ farraginoso, bisogna farsi un’idea degli eventi e compiere una selezione, ricordarsi delle sedi e delle abitudini dell’anno prima (dove andare a mangiare, dov’è la banca, dove prendere i taxi, quali sono […]
